An explosion claimed by the Pakistani Taliban kills at least 25 people and injures dozens in a busy vegetable market in the Pakistani city of Lahore, officials say, but the cause of the blast is not immediately clear.

Eight of the 10 men reportedly jailed for the attempted assassination of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai have been acquitted.

Gunmen have killed 20 construction workers in Pakistan's restive southwestern province of Baluchistan, shooting them at point blank range.

A Pakistani military official says soldiers have killed 80 militants and wounded about 100 in an operation near the Afghan border